Steeped in the Word

May 28, 2025 – 5/28/2025

  5 – The Grace of God

28 – Times and Seasons

Because they do not regard the works of the Lord, Nor the operation of His hands, He shall destroy them And not build them up. Blessed be the Lord, Because He has heard the voice of my supplications! The Lord is my strength and my shield; My heart trusted in Him, and I am helped; Therefore my heart greatly rejoices, And with my song I will praise Him. Psalm 28:5-7 NKJV

It’s Time to Ask

For years before OpenDoor Food Bank became a reality, my family and I had a route through the backroads of Johnson County to take food to over 70 needy seniors. These people were so grateful and happy to see us. One woman always met us at the gate and only let me hand her the bags over the chain link fence. 

Me, being as subtle as a meat cleaver, finally asked what the problem was. She turned beet red and said she was too embarrassed to have anyone in her home. Her roof had leaked badly for over 20 years and caused her floors and walls to rot.  

While I wanted to tell her, I could round up some guys to come in and fix the problem, I knew better. Instead, I asked her if we could pray for God to do a miracle. She said she felt silly asking God to fix her roof when so many other people needed bigger or more important things. Hmmmm. 

She was a really sweet old lady with good intentions, but that line of thinking had kept her from being blessed for a very long time. I told her she needed to get over that feeling and ask God to provide, and pray we did. 

That week, I made arrangements for manpower and supplies and was excited to tell her about my plan to fix her roof. Saturday rolled around and as we pulled up to her house, my eyes nearly bugged out. It was an entirely new house! 

She came running out through the gate to hug me, excited and full of life. She was so grateful to God for answering her prayer.

She said the city was putting up a new telephone pole a few days after I left. It crashed through her roof and damaged the walls and floors. Being an election year, the mayor didn’t want the bad press of making a sweet old lady homeless. By Friday, she had new framework, floors, walls and a new roof.

For the first time, I saw the inside of her house – the house God built. We blessed her and the house with prayer and thanksgiving.

When I look back on that miracle, it seems to me that God had been waiting for years to give that woman a new roof. It never occurred to her to ask because she underestimated God. She thought He would see her roof as trivial. How it must have hurt our Father to know she assumed He considered her unimportant. She was wrong on both counts.

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives, and he who seeks, finds and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, He will give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know who to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in Heaven give good things to those who ask Him! – Matthew 7:17-12

When the Good Book says, “you have not because you ask not,” God’s not kidding. He wants to provide and He’ll do it in some crazy cool ways. 

Pray a-Latte

Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints—Ephesians 6:18 NKJV

Monthly Prayer Points

Mothers, Grandmothers, Stepmothers, and  Mothers-In-Law

High School Grads

Remember Those Who Gave Their Lives In Military Service; And The Gold-Star Families

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